{"id":601286,"date":"2022-04-12T08:59:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T08:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=239541"},"modified":"2022-04-12T08:59:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T08:59:15","slug":"the-trial-of-thomas-sankaras-killers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/04\/12\/the-trial-of-thomas-sankaras-killers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trial of Thomas Sankara\u2019s Killers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The renowned revolutionary and anti-imperialist leader Thomas Sankara was murdered on October 15, 1987, at the age of 37.\u00a0Sankara took power in the West African state of Upper Volta after a coup in 1983, changing the name of the former French colony to Burkina Faso the following year.\u00a0Sankara was gunned down along with 12 colleagues in Burkina\u2019s capital Ouagadougou. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/04\/12\/the-trial-of-thomas-sankaras-killers-2\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/04\/12\/the-trial-of-thomas-sankaras-killers-2\/\">The Trial of Thomas Sankara\u2019s Killers<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/04\/12\/the-trial-of-thomas-sankaras-killers-2\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The renowned revolutionary and anti-imperialist leader Thomas Sankara was murdered on October 15, 1987, at the age of 37.\u00a0Sankara took power in the West African state of Upper Volta after a coup in 1983, changing the name of the former French colony to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601287,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601286\/revisions\/601287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}